---
title: "Sunda Stink-badger"
description: "Mydaus javanensis — Mammals. The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/sunda-stink-badger
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sunda Stink-badger

> Mydaus javanensis — Mammals. The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

- Scientific name: *Mydaus javanensis*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 80
- Wikidata: [Q570548](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q570548)
- iNaturalist taxon: [41831](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41831)

## Names

- en: Sunda Stink-badger
- de: Sundastinkdachs
- es: Lingo
- fr: Télagon de Java
- nl: Maleise stinkdas
- pl: Fetornik sundajski

## Countries with the most observations

MY (63), ID (11)

## Summary

The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite the common name, stink badgers are not closely related to true badgers, and are, instead, Old World relatives of the skunks. Coincidentally, its local name sigung in Sundanese is a false cognate to skunk which is of Algonquian origin.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_stink_badger

## Photo

![Sunda Stink-badger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sunda-stink-badger/medium.jpg)

Photo: Thompson Hyggen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138534249

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sunda-stink-badger?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).